Category: “news”
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Mark Your Calendars for the 2017 WTFY Awards
WTFSEO is proud to announce we are tossing our Make SEO Great Again hats into the industry awards business — not just SEO content curation — and we’ll soon be soliciting nominations for the 2017 WTFY Awards. This, folks, means awards the way only WTFSEO can do them. In other words, this news is destined to ripple throughout […]
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POLL: How Would You Rate WTFSEO?
Gentle Readers, our leadership has asked us to reach out with a simple one question poll to help us gauge our site’s performance. Please let us know how we’re doing by voting in the following poll. Your opinion is appreciated and valued.
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Poll: Is Black Hat SEO Working For You?
Black Hat SEOs have been talking lately about whether or not their methods are working. If you’re an SEO, take our poll below on black hat SEO and let us know if it’s working for you. Apologize for the short post today – we had an image we really wanted to use so we needed […]
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EgoBait: The Movie
Yes, it’s true, we’re going to be producing a documentary on EgoBait, where we’ll interview “influencers” who will be more than willing to retweet the movie to their myriad of followers, thereby ensuring views and links for WTFSEO. Heck, we’ll even throw in a couple of employees here, talking on script camera about how influential […]
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Developing your Xennial marketing strategy
Yes, it’s true, there’s a new demographic that’s been pulled out of a CMO’s ass identified. The missing link between the mythical Gen X and the “don’t care” Millennials. A new generation that can complain about Gen X, Boomers, AND Millennials. This is of course, The Xennials (ed – weren’t they called Gen-Y?). The Xennials are […]
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Reading Content Out Loud Improves Google Rankings
SEO is hard and SEOs are always looking for a new way to rank. Good news for you, we’ve uncovered a new ranking factor. And it comes directly from Google itself. Google’s own Gary Ilyes told us recently on Twitter, and SEroundtable covered: “DYK if you read out loud the text on your page and […]
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TAFE: Our January Finances & Nearing Profitability
Here at WTFSEO we firmly believe in the code of TAFE (That’s TAGFEE minus the generosity and empathy) Since being acquired by CoCuMo a few months ago, we’ve been forced to changed our ways of thinking about openness and transparency. In keeping with the spirit of the TAFE code, we’re going to release our January […]
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10 Black Hat Tactics That Google Will Penalize You For!
As you know, we always reward our loyal readers with the latest tactics and news in the SEO industry. Since we’ve decided to triple down on Search in 2017, we thought what better way to start out than by warning you of the ways that you can irrevocably harm your site in the eyes of […]
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SEO Chatter: Algorithm Update?
Some guy on twitter we’re not following noticed that several of his keywords moved from page 7 – where they got 0 clicks – to page 4 – where they still send 0 clicks. Is this a major ranking algorithm update? We reached out to Google to demand that they provide us with a change log […]
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Exclusive: AMP on the way out
Accelerated Mobile Pages (aka AMP) became a hot trend in 2016 thanks to Google support as well as a level of SEO expertise not seen since the launch of RankBrain. However, we’ve learned (don’t ask us how, we just know….. We’re SEOs) AMP’s heyday is about to end. Like a dog seeing a squirrel, it […]
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These 2 Slides Will Make You The Ultimate SEO Guru
The end of digital marketing conference season is almost here. That can mean only one thing: it’s almost time for next year’s digital marketing conference season! How exciting! Did you follow all the great advice on how to be an amazeballs speaker? Did that advice help transform you into one of the highest rated presenters […]